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United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1977
Credits female members of the armed forces, for purposes of computing years of active service in the armed forces, with service performed during World War I by such individuals as members of telephone operating units of the Army.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1977
Military Construction Authorization Act - Title I: Army - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to establish or develop military installations and facilities at specified locations. Authorizes appropriations in specified amount for each of these locations. Authorizes the Secretary to establish or develop other installations by proceeding with construction made necessary by unforeseen security considerations, new weapons development, new and unforeseen research and development requirements, or improved production schedules. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose. Title II: Navy - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to establish or develop military installations and facilities at specified locations. Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts for each such location. Authorizes the Secretary to establish or develop other installations where necessary under the same conditions as those relating to the Secretary of the Army under Title I of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to construct recreational facilities at the United States Naval Station, San Diego, California, to replace the existing Navy Athletic Field. Title III: Air Force - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to establish or develop military installations and facilities at specified locations. Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts for each such location. Authorizes the Secretary to establish or develop additional facilities where necessitated by those factors enumerated in Title I of this Act pertaining to the Secretary of the Army. Title IV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to establish or develop military installations at specified locations and authorizes appropriations in specified amounts for each such location. Authorizes the Secretary to establish or develop additional facilities which are determined to be vital to the security of the United States. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose. Title V: Military Family Housing - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to construct or acquire military family housing units in specified numbers at specified locations. Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts for each such location. Stipulates that no family housing construction shall be commenced until the Secretary has determined that suitable private housing is unavailable. Authorizes the Secretary to increase the amounts authorized for such purpose up to ten percent for the purpose of meeting unforeseeable variations in cost. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to expend specified amounts to improve existing public quarters for the various military departments. Sets forth the amount which may be expended for the leasing of quarters for military personnel. Increases the average authorized lease costs for military housing in foreign countries. Stipulates that such a lease may not be for more than ten years. Title VI: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretaries of the military departments to develop or establish installations under this Act regardless of certain restrictions contained in specified laws relating to the advancement of public moneys for construction projects and cost and space limitations for family quarters for members of the Army and Air Force. Sets forth limitations on the use of funds authorized to be appropriated under this Act. Authorizes increases in the amounts specified under this Act under certain circumstances. Requires the Secretaries of each of the military departments to report to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives regarding construction contracts awarded under this Act. Repeals previous authorizations for military public works. Specifies exceptions to such repeal. Sets for the unit cost limitations for construction projects for permanent barracks and bachelor officers quarters under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to increase such cost limitation in order to equip such projects with solar heating or cooling equipment. Authorizes the Secretaries of the military departments and the Directors of the defense agencies to engage in construction projects not otherwise authorized (except construction of family quarters) at military installations where such projects cost less than $1,000,000. Requires that the Committees on Armed Services and Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives be notified in advance of any proposed project costing more than $300,000. Requires the Secretaries of each military department and the Secretary of Defense for the defense agencies to report annually to such committees regarding such public works projects. Requires that the Air Force San Patricio Fuel Storage Site, San Juan, Puerto Rico be sold and authorizes the use of proceeds from such sale for the construction of new facilities for the Puerto Rico National Guard. Abolishes the present system of including naval districts within the organization of the Department of the Navy. Prohibits the closure or realignment of military bases involving reductions in civilian personnel positions below a specified level or construction or conversion at military installations made necessary by the relocation of such civilian personnel unless: (1) the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of the military department concerned notifies the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives that such installation is a candidate for closure or realignment; (2) the appropriate Secretary complies with the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969; (3) the appropriate Secretary notifies the Committees on Armed Services of a final decision in writing regarding such closure or realignment and a detailed justification for such decision; and (4) a period of at least 60 days elapses between such notification and the implementation of such decision. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey a specified parcel of land in Los Angeles, California, to that city in exchange for specified parcel of land adjacent to the Naval Support Activity, Long Beach, California. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire from the City of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a specified portion of land adjacent to Peterson Air Force Base, El Paso County, Colorado, in exchange for a conveyance by the Secretary to the City of portions of Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs equal in monetary value to the land acquired. Authorizes the Secretaries of the military departments to enter into long-term contracts for the purchase of fuels derived from waste materials including provisions for the collection and disposal of solid waste from Department of Defense installations. Repeals the authority of the Secretaries of the military departments to use surcharges on commissary goods and services for the construction or improvement of commissary facilities within the United States. Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Navy to charge villages and facilities at or near Point Barrow, Alaska, for natural gas supplied to such areas between October 1, 1974 and April 6, 1976 at a rate equal to the rate charged for such natural gas subsequent to April 6, 1976 pursuant to the Naval Petroleum Reserve Production Act of 1976. Title VII: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities Authorization Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to establish or develop additional facilities for the Guard and the Reserve components of the armed forces regardless of certain restrictions contained in specified laws relating to the advancement of public moneys for construction projects and cost and space limitations for family quarters for members of the Army and Air Force.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1977
Exempts courses which lead to a standard college degree from the "85-15" rule whereby the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs is required to disapprove enrollment of any eligible veteran, not already enrolled, in any course offered by a proprietary profit or proprietary nonprofit educational institution where more than 85 percent of the students enrolled have their fees paid by either the Veterans' Administration or the institution itself. Revises the application of rules governing the two-year period a course must be in operation before enrollment of eligible veterans or persons can be approved.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1977
Authorizes the establishment of a National Guard for American Samoa.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1977
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to budget funds for certain specified purposes to assist the Civil Air Patrol. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to give, sell, or lend to the Civil Air Patrol excess property acquired by the Air Force under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1977
Revises eligibility standards for receiving the gold star lapel button.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1977
Credits female members of the armed forces, for purposes of computing years of active service in the armed forces, with service performed during World War I by such individuals as members of telephone operating units of the Army.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1977
Declares that time spent by civilian citizens and permanent residents of the United States in prisoner-of-war camps, internment centers, or similar places, on or after D December 7, 1941, shall be considered; (1) service in the active military or naval service for purposes of certain veterans' benefits; (2) military service during war for purposes of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937; (3) military service for purposes of Civil Service retirement; and (4) active service for purposes of Armed Forces retirement pay.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1977
Revises the special pay structure for active duty medical officers of the uniformed services to direct the Secretaries of Defense and Health, Education, and Welfare to promulgate regulations through which variable incentive pay may be adjusted to reflect (1) amounts that the Federal Government has paid to, or (2) benefits received by, medical officers prior to the commencement of active duty.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1977
Exempts courses which lead to a standard college degree from the "85-15" rule under which the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs is required to disapprove enrollment of any eligible veteran, not already enrolled, in any course where more than 85 percent of the students enrolled have their fees paid by either the Federal Government or the educational institution itself.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1977
Exempts courses which lead to a standard college degree from the "85-15" rule whereby the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs is required to disapprove enrollment of any eligible veteran, not already enrolled, in any course offered by a proprietary profit or proprietary nonprofit educational institution where more than 85 percent of the students enrolled have their fees paid by either the Veterans' Administration or the institution itself. Revises the application of rules governing the two-year period a course must be in operation before enrollment of eligible veterans or persons can be approved.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1977
World War I Pension Act - Requires the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay (in addition to any already paid) a monthly pension of $150 to each veteran of World War I who meets specified service requirements, or to the surviving spouse of each such veteran, or when there is no surviving spouse, to the child or children of each such veteran.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1977
Veterans Judicial Review - Subjects the decisions of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs on any question of law or fact under any law administered by the Veterans' Administration providing benefits for veterans and their dependents or survivors to judicial review by a district court in the district where the claimant resides. Substitutes for the present $10 limit on attorney's and agent's fee for claims a requirement that such fees be reasonable.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1977
Denies veterans' benefits to an individual whose discharge from military service during the Vietnam era under less than honorable conditions is administratively upgraded, under temporarily revised standards, to discharge under honorable conditions; but only when such veteran's claim for benefits is based solely on such upgraded discharge.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1977
Provides that recipients of veterans' pension and compensation will not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced, or entitlement thereto discontinued, because of increases in monthly social security benefits. Applies these amendments to annual income determinations made for calendar years after 1972. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 415(g), adds 38 U.S.C. 503(d))
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1977
Grants survivor benefits to dependents of present or former members of the armed forces who die before becoming entitled to retired pay for non-regular service. Stipulates that such amount be 55 percent of the retired pay to which such member would have been entitled. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 1448(e))
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1977
Credits female members of the armed forces, for purposes of computing years of active service in the armed forces, with service performed during World War I by such individuals as members of telephone operating units of the Army.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1977
Provides that recipients of veterans' pension and compensation will not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced, or entitlement thereto discontinued, because of increases in monthly social security benefits. Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to (1) restore the entitlement of any person who lost their entitlement by reason of certain past increases in monthly social security benefits; and (2) pay in a lump sum to any such person any such compensation or pension that would have been payable to him but to such loss of entitlement.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1977
Permits the enlistment of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees into the armed forces under specified conditions.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1977
World War I Pension Act - Requires the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay (in addition to any already paid) a monthly pension of $150 to each veteran of World War I who meets specified service requirements, or to the surviving spouse of each such veteran, or when there is no surviving spouse, to the child or children of each such veteran.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1977
Increases the period of veterans' education assistance from 45 to 54 months, and eliminates the delimiting period. Grants eligibility for such assistance to any veteran of World War II, the Korean conflict, or the Vietnam era whose previous entitlement terminated without such veteran's availing himself of all the assistance to which he was entitled.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1977
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Defense shall at the earliest opportunity inter an Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery and make permanent display of representative medals, ribbons, and tributes of the Vietnam War in the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1977
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Defense shall at the earliest opportunity inter an Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery and make permanent display of representative medals, ribbons, and tributes of the Vietnam War in the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1977
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Defense shall at the earliest opportunity inter an Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery and make permanent display of representative medals, ribbons, and tributes of the Vietnam War in the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1977
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Defense shall at the earliest opportunity inter an Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery and make permanent display of representative medals, ribbons, and tributes of the Vietnam War in the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1977
Comprehensive Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act - Title I: Educational Assistance Program Amendments - Redefines the qualifying service period of an "eligible veteran" to be the period from August 4, 1964, to January 1, 1977; and redesignates as an "eligible peacetime post-Korean veteran" anyone whose qualifying service period fell between January 31, 1955 and August 5, 1964; and entitles both "eligible veterans" and "eligible peacetime post-Korean veterans" to all benefits, services and loans available under the educational assistance program. Sets conditions for extending the ten-year delimiting period for receipt of assistance up to a maximum of two additional years. Provides that counseling offered by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to veterans eligible for educational assistance may include assisting any veteran: (1) to select the occupation or training objective suitable to him in terms of his personal circumstances, characteristics, financial resources, dependent responsibilities and other relevant factors; (2) to select the occupation or training objective which will provide him, after he has developed the required job skills, with reasonable opportunities for employment and with job satisfaction; (3) to select the educational or vocational objective; and (4) to develop a program of education that will lead to a recognized and predetermined educational, vocational, technical or professional objective within the veteran's period of entitlement. Directs the Administrator to take such measures as may be necessary, including denial of applications or disapproval of courses, to insure that no aspect of the educational assistance program is used for the purpose of income supplementation, unemployment compensation, or adjusted compensation. Allows continued payments to veterans enrolled in institutions not complying with provisions of this Act if such veterans are not at fault for the noncompliance. Provides an accelerated educational assistance allowance, not to exceed twice the ordinary monthly amount, to be granted, after appropriate counseling, to an eligible veteran or person who demonstrates need for the acceleration. Stipulates the categories of persons most likely to need a program of acceleration. Limits any program of accelerated assistance allowances to five years. Title II: War Orphans' and Widows' Educational Assistance Program Amendments - Allows the ten-year period of eligibility for educational assistance to run from the later wedding date of a spouse already determined to have a service-connected disability. Entitles eligible war orphans and widows to accelerated educational assistance allowances. Title III: Administration of Educational Benefits - Extends the coverage of existing administrative provisions of the educational assistance program to all branches and extensions of an educational institution. Directs the Administrator to establish between himself, the State approving agencies and nationally recognized accrediting agencies and associations, an exchange of information pertaining to activities of educational institutions, especially to the enforcement of approval standards and enrollment restrictions, and fraudulent and other criminal activities on the part of persons connected with the institution; and directs the Administrator to furnish the U.S. Attorney General, the Department of Defense, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Communications Commission and other Federal, State and local agencies such information and assistance as may be necessary to preclude abuses or enhance the effectiveness of the programs established hereunder. Requires educational institutions to transmit to State approving agencies catalogs or bulletins certified as true, current, and correct both in content and policy by an authorized school official. Requires the State approving agencies to find as a condition of approval adequate standards of progress established and clearly defined, and to find that an institution and its programs of education are in every aspect, portion, element, and division in full compliance with the law. Revises the criteria for approval of nonaccredited courses to require that applications contain, among other things: (1) names and titles of presently and previously associated institutions that have been cited for or involved in illegal, unethical, deceptive or misleading practices; (2) specific entrance requirements; (3) institution policy and regulations relative to leave, absences, class cuts, makeup work, tardiness and interruptions for unsatisfactory attendance; (4) requirements for graduation, including those courses directly related and those not directly required for attainment of a particular educational or vocational objective; (5) a statement of recognition or acceptance by any prominent institutions, associations, agencies and employers associated with the type of work or skill to be learned; (6) policy and regulations relating to the refund of the unused portion of tuition and fees in the event of a student's withdrawal or discontinuance; (7) a detailed description of the space, facilities and equipment of all branches or extensions of the institution; (8) procedures for evaluation, certification or recognition of military training, education, skills and experience; and (9) an accurate and detailed completion rate for courses and placement rates for graduates in the specific skill or work for which they were trained. Requires all advertising, promotion, sales techniques, claims and personnel employed by or representing the institution and branches or extensions offering nonaccredited courses to be in compliance with all applicable State and Federal licensing regulations and laws. Permits the Administrator to disapprove any institution or program of education approved as accredited if it fails to comply with any of the appropriate provisions of the law. Makes any advance payment of initial educational assistance or subsistence allowance conditional, and denies such advance payments to those entitled to receive accelerated payments. Requires the application for conditional advance payments to indicate that the eligible veteran or person had requested such, that it is necessary and appropriate to meet specific expenses, and that such expenses shall reasonably equal or exceed the amount of conditional advance payment. Requires the Administrator to set up an appeals procedure for administrative proceedings involving property loss resulting from a decision to terminate or modify an eligible veteran's or person's educational benefits. Increases from $3 and $4 to $8 and $10 respectively the fees paid to educational institutions in reimbursement for reports and certifications. Directs the Administrator to refer to the U.S. Attorney General any deliberate, premeditated or willful misconduct or illegal action of a significant nature or involving a significant sum of money stemming from overpayments occasioned by a false or misleading report by an educational institution. Sets new conditions for the enrollment of an eligible veteran or person in a program of correspondence or residence-correspondence. Denies approval of enrollment in an institution in any way affiliated with a proprietary institution or profitmaking operation which affects any program of education provided eligible veterans and persons unless such program meets all the requirements of the law. Requires the Administrator to notify any eligible veteran or eligible person of any available vocational assistance alternatives and of any legal recourse when it disapproves an institution or discontinues anyone's educational assistance. Requires the Administrator, when he has determined that the interruption or failure of a person's program was due in whole or in part to problems of personal adjustment, to advise such person of available counseling services and vocational, educational and psychological assistance. Establishes with the Veterans Administration an Interagency Veterans' Advisory Task Force to advise and assist the Administrator, among other things, in: (1) the review of the effectiveness and coordination of all rights and services authorized for veterans; (2) the development and implementation of studies of the effectiveness of laws applicable to veterans and eligible persons; (3) the monitoring and evaluation and preclusion of abuses of veterans' adjustment assistance programs; (4) the investigation of patterns of allegations indicating that veterans are being denied rights, benefits, or assistance; and (5) the appraisal of Federal laws, appropriations and policies meeting the readjustment needs of veterans. Directs the Task Force to serve as a national clearinghouse for information and assistance relating to the needs of veterans, and to serve as an advocate for the correction of problems and the preclusion of abuses. Establishes within the Task Force a section on enforcement and implementation of laws, a section on the evaluation and accreditation of military experience, and an Advisory Committee to take over the duties and responsibilities of the current advisory committee, with special emphasis on the inclusion and participation of veterans receiving or requiring readjustment assistance. Empowers the Task Force and its sections to issue subpenas. Requires the Task Force to report to Congress within one year of enactment its findings and recommendations for post-Vietnam era readjustment assistance programs. Sets maximum aggregate education loan amounts for eligible persons with no, one, or two or more dependents. Title IV: Miscellaneous Veterans Program Amendments - Requires the Veterans Administration to adjust its adjudication criteria and under no circumstances to determine eligibility for veterans' benefits for ex-servicemen with other than honorable discharges with either less lenient or more restrictive criteria and procedures than those used by the various military departments in the review and upgrading of other than honorable discharges. Title V: Employment and Training of Disabled and Vietnam-era Veterans - Includes within the term "veteran of the Vietnam era" as used in connection with special training and employment programs for such veterans, those veterans who were discharged more than 48 months prior to their application for employment. Title VI: Veterans' Administration: Miscellaneous Amendments - Directs the Administrator to initiate a comprehensive outreach and information program to inform veterans of the programs and services made available by this Act. Directs the veterans' representatives to carry out such outreach and information assistance services. Requires both the Administrator and the veterans' representatives especially to assist veterans whose educational benefits have ended because of the expiration of their delimiting period to obtain alternative means of completing their education and training.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1977
Credits female members of the armed forces, for purposes of computing years of active service in the armed forces, with service performed during World War I by such individuals as members of telephone operating units of the Army.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1977
Exempts courses which lead to a standard college degree from the "85-15" rule under which the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs is required to disapprove enrollment of any eligible veteran, not already enrolled, in any course where more than 85 percent of the students enrolled have their fees paid by either the Federal Government or the educational institution itself.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1977
Makes National Guard civilian technicians members of the competitive service. Gives such individuals certain rights relating to order of retention and procedures for removal or suspension from employment.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1977
States that application for service disabled veterans' insurance must be made after separation or release from active duty, and that no such insurance shall be effective until after 120 days following separation or release. Protects the Government from any liability for insurance claims made for deaths occurring before the 121st day following separation or release. States that any insurance policy purchased by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs shall not be effective for any National Guardsman or Air National Guardsman until such Guardsman is assigned to a unit or position in which he may be required to perform active duty.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1977
Authorizes the recomputation at age 60 of the retired or retainer pay for members or former members of the uniformed services whose retired or retainer pay was computed on the basis of pay scales in effect prior to January 1, 1972 in order to reflect any retired or retainer pay increases for other members which was based on changes in the Consumer Price Index since that date.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1977
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to require State nursing homes to provide up to four beds per thousand veteran population (currently, two-and-one-half beds) in order for a State to qualify for Federal assistance in constructing nursing homes for veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1977
Denies veterans' benefits to an individual whose discharge from military service during the Vietnam era under less than honorable conditions is administratively upgraded, under temporarily revised standards, to discharge under honorable conditions; but only when such veteran's claim for benefits is based solely on such upgraded discharge.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1977
Amends the Arms Export Control Act, with respect to approval for the transfer of defense articles, training, or services under that Act, to delay the effective date of such approval until the end of the first period of 30 days of continuous Congressional session after the President has certified the proposed transfer to Congress, unless Congress disapproves such transfer by concurrent resolution within that period. Permits such proposed transfer to become effective immediately if the President certifies to Congress that a state of emergency exists which requires such transfer in the national security interests of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1977
Provides that the recipient of a veterans' pension or dependency and indemnity compensation will not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced because of cost-of-living increases in social security benefits, railroad retirement annuities, or other retirement benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1977
Provides that the recipient of a veterans' pension or dependency and indemnity compensation will not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced because of cost-of-living increases in social security benefits, railroad retirement annuities, or other retirement benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1977
Authorizes the Administrator of General Services to dispose of approximately 30,000 long tons of grade A tin now held in the national and supplemental stockpiles. Stipulates that such disposal shall be made on the domestic market for consumption within the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1977
Denies veterans' benefits to an individual whose discharge from military service during the Vietnam era under less than honorable conditions is administratively upgraded, under temporarily revised standards, to discharge under honorable conditions; but only when such veteran's claim for benefits is based solely on such upgraded discharge. Requires the Secretary of the Army to supply a complete list of individuals receiving an upgraded discharge to the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1977
Abolishes one of the two present positions of Deputy Secretary of Defense within the Department of Defense. Establishes an Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Renames the present position of Director of Defense for Research and Engineering as the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. Stipulates that the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering shall be on the Armed Forces Policy Council within the Department.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1977
States that nothing in the Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1977, shall be construed to preclude total labor surplus area set-asides pursuant to Defense Manpower Policy Number 4 if the Secretary of Defense determines that there is a reasonable expectation that offers will be obtained from a sufficient number of eligible concerns so that awards will be made at reasonable prices. Sets priorities for Federal agencies carrying out labor surplus and small business set-aside programs with the highest priority being awarded concerns which are located in labor surplus areas, and which are also small business concerns, on the basis of a total set-aside, and the lowest priority to concerns which are located in labor surplus areas on the basis of a total set-aside.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1977
Comprehensive Veterans' Employment Training and Supportive Services Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to provide (1) such comprehensive, coordinated, and interrelated programs as are deemed necessary to facilitate training, readjustment, and rehabilitation, and (2) career, veterans benefits and rights, and personal adjustment and motivational counseling to promote the productive employment of Vietnam era veterans, especially disabled veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1977
Abolishes one of the two present positions of Deputy Secretary of Defense within the Department of Defense. Establishes an Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Renames the present position of Director of Defense for Research and Engineering as the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. Stipulates that the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering shall be on the Armed Forces Policy Council within the Department.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1977
Amends Title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to decrease from 20 to 10 the number of years a divorced woman must have been married to an insured individual in order for her to qualify for wife's or widow's benefits on his wage record.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977
Permits review of cases in the United States Court of Military Appeals by the Supreme Court by writ of certiorari.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977
Grants the consent of Congress to retired members of the uniformed services, members of Reserve components of the armed forces, and members of the Public Health Reserve Service Corps to accept employment with foreign governments with the approval of the Secretary concerned and the Secretary of State.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977
Increases the number of students enrolled in the Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps programs at specified educational institutions who may receive financial assistance from the military department concerned.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977
Includes veterans of World War I who have a service-connected disability among those disabled veterans eligible for an automobile assistance allowance and for automobile adaptive equipment.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to assign and pay the applicable rate of compensation for full-service connected disability to a veteran who has suffered the loss or loss of use of one limb as a result of a service-connected disability, and has suffered the loss or loss of use of the other limb such as to cause total disability, as a result of a non-service-connected disability not the result of his own willful misconduct.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977
Veterans' Administration Administrative Procedure and Judicial Review Act - Provides that the decisions of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs on any question of law or fact under any law administered by the Veterans' Administration providing benefits for veterans and their dependents or survivors shall be subject to judicial review. Subjects all rules regulations, orders and any other determination of any kind made by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act. Repeals the requirement that the Administrator determine and pay fees to agents or attorneys in allowed claims for monetary benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977
Increases from 10 to 12 years the delimiting period for a veteran to complete a program of education.